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ByDepartment for Educationfern_mesa_c743d7

What schools need to do to set up and manage training, support, assessment and changing circumstances for the early career teacher entitlement (ECTE).

Adapted edition

Healthcare governance
Document type
Reference Guide
Format
DOCX
Pages
9
Language
English
Version
1.0
Updated
2026-09-17
Category
Safety & operations
Licence
Open Government Licence v3.0
Description

What schools need to do to set up and manage training, support, assessment and changing circumstances for the early career teacher entitlement (ECTE). Consult the original guidance for current legal and operational details.

Contents
  • Responsibility for the ECTE in schools
  • Appoint an appropriate body
  • Appropriate bodies and ECTE training programmes
  • Appropriate bodies and ECT assessment
  • Who can be appointed
  • Find and contact an appropriate body
  • Tell DfE about your appropriate body
  • Choose your school's training option
  • Responsibility for choosing a school's training programme option
  • Use an approved lead provider (provider-led)
  • Design and deliver your own training programme (school-led)
  • Tell DfE if the school is using a lead provider
  • Choose and register your induction tutor
  • Who to choose as an induction tutor
  • Keep the induction tutor and mentor roles separate
  • Tell DfE about your induction tutor
Source and licence
Set up and manage the early career teacher entitlement

Department for Education

Original source OGL-UK-3.0

AttributionDepartment for Education, ‘Set up and manage the early career teacher entitlement’ (updated 27 August 2025), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

ChangesNeutral text-only adaptation from the official GOV.UK Content API body: headings, paragraphs, ordered and unordered list items and clickable source-link destinations in an appendix preserved. Images, logos, page design, accessible-format request widgets and linked attachments excluded; normalised whitespace, invisible format marks and typography.

Version history
  • v1.017/09/2026
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